The best things in life are unlikely to occur. In many situations, taking at least moderate risks yields higher expected rewards. Yet many people struggle with taking such risks: they are overly cautious and forego high payoffs. ...
Mathematics
May 11, 2022
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In diverse schools, friends of the same race or ethnicity are influential in shaping teenagers' sense of belonging, finds new research by a multidisciplinary team including Cornell's Adam Hoffman, an expert in psychology ...
Social Sciences
May 11, 2022
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Wealth inequality is a research topic typically reserved for humans. Now, research from the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that studying wealth inequality in animals ...
Evolution
May 3, 2022
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Children's attitudes towards learning languages and their willingness to see themselves as 'multilingual' are influenced far more by the views of their parents than by their teachers or friends, new research indicates.
Education
May 3, 2022
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A survey of public opinion in China conducted by researchers at Rice University, the National University of Singapore and the University of British Columbia shows the country's perceptions of the U.S. plummeted during the ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2022
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The odds of encountering a dangerous spider are far longer than its legs: Fewer than five of every 1,000 spider species pose any health threat to people, and the few that do rarely live among humans. Still, arachnophobia ...
Social Sciences
Apr 18, 2022
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In mid-March, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine crept into its third week, an unusual video started making the rounds on social media and was even broadcast on the television channel Ukraine 24 due to the efforts of hackers.
Political science
Apr 4, 2022
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According to a study by researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the University of Münster, millionaires are more risk-tolerant, emotionally stable, ...
Social Sciences
Apr 4, 2022
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Today, quantum systems are becoming increasingly important for technological innovations in information processing, cryptography, photonics, spintronics, and high-performance computing. They are in constant interaction with ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 29, 2022
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Social mingling shapes and transforms the 'vocabularies' of apes, just like in humans, according to new research led by the University of Warwick.
Plants & Animals
Mar 21, 2022
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